I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“She looked Spencer over, tip to toe, as though she were considering buying him. Then she smiled her friendliest smile and said,… — Garson Kanin Copy Share Image
“ Bethune was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.” — Larry Hannant Copy Share Image
“The Greatest” is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have… — Mike Parry Copy Share Image
“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“I have long since chosen him for my only good, my all; my pleasure, my happiness in this world as in the… — Arnold Dallimore Copy Share Image
“Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn” — Jo Ann Butler Copy Share Image
“Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Nicky Cruz: You come near me and I'll kill you! David Wilkerson: Yeah, you could do that. You could cut me up… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Do not follow other's quotes,because you're the one who knows about yourself ,and what is suitable for you. everyone has their own… — Yoshitha indrachapa Copy Share Image
“I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.” — Ben Franklin Copy Share Image
“Know before whom thou stands. Understand your friends for who they are, not who you wish them to be. Accept them for… — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
“Was he a good father?" To their surprise, I shake my head and smile. "No," I reply candidly. "He wasn't a good… — Deana Martin Copy Share Image
“Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major… — Heinz Linge Copy Share Image
“The Air Loom had been constructed by the Jacobins in Paris around the time of their coup d'etat in 1793. Just as… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“The Bedlam that greeted James Tilly Matthews, then, was not so much a baroque spectacle of depravity as an exhausted and run-down… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“Broad-Based Education: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.… I decided to take a calligraphy… — George Beahm Copy Share Image
“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever… — Ira Bruce Nadel Copy Share Image
Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone. — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
“We are now edging across the boundary - always a porous one - between self-justification and fantasy. Matthews' story is by no… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
